Animal Trait Correlation Database

 Cattle Trait Details

Average daily gain (ADG)
Trait ID :1053
Mean : 1254 (kg/day or lb/day)
Standard deviation :n/a
Heritability :0.36
Variance :14641
Genetic variance on mother side : 
Genetic variance on father side : 
Permanent environmental variance : 
Temporary environmental variance : 

Reference

Gregory, KE; Cundiff, LV; Koch, RM, (1995)

Genetic and phenotypic (co)variances for growth and carcass traits of purebred and composite populations of beef cattle.

Journal of Animal Science, 73 (7): 1920-6

Additional information about the trait :

Description :Daily body weight gain averaged over a period of time, usually during gestation, fattening, or testing.
Measurement :End weight subtract starting weight, divided by number of days
Measure unit :kg/day or lb/day
Link to Vertibrate Trait ontology :Accession: VT:0001731
Link to Clinical Measurement Ontology :Accession: CMO:0000419

Annotated data to this trait:

 3,524 QTL/SNP associations are found on this trait 329 correlartion records are linked with this trait 59 heritability measurements are reported on this trait
 

 

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